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Yeah, yeah, Jules V. Levy and friends present this, but Blake presents themselves this plate of nachos

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Uh-oh. Underwater sequences before they figured out how to make those not soporific

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"Meanwhile, in the secret laboratory next door, scientists are hard at work on new fruitcake rations"

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It's no fair that he can jump out of the movie and we can't

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Maybe he just doesn't want to respond to "flutterboy" any more

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If we're not getting a giant radioactive ladybug out of all this, I will be very disappointed

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Closing the beaches? Panic on the fourth of July!

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"I'm not bad. I'm just written that way."

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there's a hole at the bottom of the Salton Sea

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Yes, ineffectually poke at it, that'll work

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"We're about ready to shove off. Can he talk her through her grief in the next three minutes?"

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Double mourning bands?

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Was this before the concept of leftovers had been invented?

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"You're our last hope, world's greatest map nerd"

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What I didn't tell any of you was that I'm typing on my laptop while watching the movie on my phone, so I can pick the movie up and walk with it when I wander the house looking for where I left my Junior Mints

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Kids will unleash the wackiest horrors from the deep

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A cryptid in a canal... the Lock Ness Monster?

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Man, nothing good will come to you if your job occupation is something ominous like "gatekeeper"

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"Arm the blocks of Velveeta and get out of there!"

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"Now we kick back and relax for half an hour before we do anything, smoke 'em if you got 'em" is a great way to maintain tension in a monster movie

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The shot of the two of them in the lab with the monster is the best the movie has done so far

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STAB IT IN THE EYE WITH THE MOP

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Thank goodness he found the tube of random stuff

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And they fucked off into the inland sea created by an engineering mistake

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@bstacey This is one of those things which I expect would have been much more reasonable to people when the movie was made, I believe that's a steam pipe used for either heat or power.

As I understand it, a lot of things used to be powered using steam power, instead of everything having its own electric motor in it, so people used to be a lot more used to having steam pipes everywhere.

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@Canageek It kind of looked like a steam supply line

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Seattle Steam Company - Wikipedia

@moira @bstacey @Canageek And for some reason it was briefly Canadian o.0